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Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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theinspirer and owner of the mansion, Mr. F. R. Leyland, realizeshis dream of living the life of an old Venetian merchant inmodern London. The first thing that strikes you when you enter the vastentrance hall, lighted by ample windows in the daytime andby electric lamps, distributed over the ceiling, at night, is thestaircase, with its fine balustrade of gilt bronze, which onceadorned Northumberland House, before that building was de-molished to make room for the avenue that now bears its name. This balustrade, of admirable design, was made at the20 306 ART AND CRITICISM. end of the eighteenth century, at prosaic Birmingham, in thedays when taste had not yet utterly abandoned that industri-ous town. The pillar from which the hand-rail starts is sur-mounted by two crowned female figures, one of which wavesa long oriflamme. This group of gilt wood in all probabilityadorned originally the prow of a Venetian galley, and Sanso-vino may have designed it. The tonality of the hall and of the
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ENTRANCE HALL. staircase, from the foot to the top of the house, is green. Thewhole is panelled in shades of willow. The dado of the darkershades is enriched with panels imitating aventurine lacquer,decorated with delicate sprigs of pale rose and white flowersin the Japanese taste. These panels are the work of no lessa master than Mr. James McNeill Whistler. On the walls of A PRE RAPHAELITE MANSION. 307 the staircase are hung Burne-Joness Circe, Rossettis Lov-ing-cup, Alphonse Legross Rehearsal, while on the wallsof the hall itself are placed the Sea Spell, the Dis Mani-bus, and La Pia, by Rossetti; Cupid reviving Psyche,by Burne-Jones ; and a portrait of Rossetti by G. F. Watts,which give the key-note of Mr. Leylands tastes. The placeof honor in this house we shall find is divided between DanteGabriel Rossetti and Sandro Botticelli. The furniture of the hall is effective and discreetly rich.The mosaic floor is partly covered with Oriental rugs, anddotted here and there with gigantic

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